Disco Elysium Developer Cancels Expansion and Lays Off Workers

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Disco Elysium Developer Cancels Expansion and Lays Off Workers
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Disco Elysium developer ZA/UM has canceled a standalone expansion to Disco Elysium codenamed X7 and is laying off 24 workers, including Argo Tuulik, the last remaining employee at ZA/UM credited as a writer on the original Disco Elysium.

Disco Elysium developer ZA/UM has canceled a standalone expansion to Disco Elysium codenamed X7 and is laying off 24 workers, including Argo Tuulik, the last remaining employee at ZA/UM credited as a writer on the original Disco Elysium . ZA/UM subsequently confirmed the layoffs and project cancellation in a statement to PC Gamer.

While other members of the original team remain at the company, including Final Cut writer Justin Keenan, who was credited as an editor in the original release, it's an alarming rupture in continuity for the studio, which already saw theTuulik and ZA/UM principal writer Dora Klindžić went on the record with GLHF to confirm that the majority of the affected workers were part of X7's development. According to an all-hands email from CEO Ilmar Kompus, this leaves a project codenamed P1 that is on"pause," plus two projects codenamed C4 and M0 that remain in active developmen

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